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Frequency down-conversion of solid-state laser sources to the mid-infrared spectral range using non-oxide nonlinear crystals

Valentin Petrov
- 01 Jul 2015 - 
- Vol. 42, pp 1-106
TLDR
In this article, the development of parametric devices down-converting the laser frequency to the mid-infrared (3-30 µm) based on non-oxide nonlinear optical crystals is reviewed.
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This article is published in Progress in Quantum Electronics.The article was published on 2015-07-01. It has received 335 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Optical parametric amplifier & Cross-polarized wave generation.

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Broadly tunable mode-locked Ho:YAG ceramic laser around 2.1 µm.

TL;DR: A passively mode-locked Ho:YAG ceramic laser around 2.1 µm is demonstrated using GaSb-based near-surface SESAM as saturable absorber and spectroscopic properties of Ho: YAG ceramics at room temperature are presented.
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Sub-80 fs mode-locked Tm,Ho-codoped disordered garnet crystal oscillator operating at 2081 nm

TL;DR: A mode-locked (ML) femtosecond laser based on the disordered garnet crystal Tm,Ho:CNGG is demonstrated based on a single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber and pulses as short as 83 and 76 fs at 2081 nm are achieved without and with external compression.
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M2As2Q5 (M = Ba, Pb; Q = S, Se): a source of infrared nonlinear optical materials with excellent overall performance activated by multiple discrete arsenate anions

TL;DR: In this article, a new source of non-centrosymmetric (NCS) arsenates M2As2Q5 (M = Ba, Pb; Q = S, Se) have been screened out by combined experiments and theoretical calculations.
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Three-photon absorption in optical parametric oscillators based on OP-GaAs.

TL;DR: This work reports on the first singly resonant (SR), synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on orientation-patterned gallium arsenide (OP-GaAs), and presents a detailed study of the three-photon loss on the performance of both the SR- and DR-OPOs, and compare them to those without this loss mechanism.
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Interactions between light waves in a nonlinear dielectric

TL;DR: In this paper, the induced nonlinear electric dipole and higher moments in an atomic system, irradiated simultaneously by two or three light waves, are calculated by quantum-mechanical perturbation theory.
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Quasi-phase-matched second harmonic generation: tuning and tolerances

TL;DR: The theory of quasi-phase-matched second-harmonic generation in both the space domain and the wave vector mismatch domain is presented in this paper, where various types of errors in the periodicity of these structures are analyzed to find their effects on the conversion efficiency and on the shape of the tuning curve.
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